SARS is characterized by severe, pneumonia-like symptoms which can be fatal. SARS-CoV was transmitted from person to person mainly through respiratory droplets produced when a person sneezes or coughs ...

Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across ...

This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. The science around transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is complex and evolving quickly. For ...

Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...

The virus last week confirmed as causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is transmitted almost entirely by large droplets reaching the mucous membranes of nose and lungs and not by feces or ...

Researchers have discovered a virus that could enter human cells in a similar way to COVID-19. But they caution it's much ...

Tuesday marked five years since the World Health Organization declared a world pandemic as the SARS-CoV-2 transmission ...

The discovery of a new bat coronavirus in China has sparked concerns of another pandemic. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is similar to to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The following is a summary of “Ongoing Symptoms After Acute SARS-CoV-2 or Influenza Infection in a Case-Ascertained Household Transmission Study: 7 US Sites, 2021–2023,” published in the February 2025 ...